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Austin Sears, 72, Dies; Founded Cooperstown Summer Theatre Fest

Reprinted From This Week’s  Freeman’s,  Hometown Oneonta Austin Sears, 72, Dies; Founded Cooperstown Summer Theatre Fest Austin and Margarita Sears in 2013, after they decided to close the Cooperstown Summer Theatre Festival after almost three decades. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com) By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Austin Sears, 72, creator, manager and actor at the Cooperstown Summer Theatre Festival for three decades, exited life’s stage on Dec. 17, 2019, in New York City. “We met in 1979,” his wife…

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Austin Sears, 72, Dies; Founded Cooperstown Summer Theatre Fest

Austin Sears, 72, Dies; Founded Cooperstown Summer Theatre Fest By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Austin Sears, 72, creator, manager and actor at the Cooperstown Summer Theatre Festival for three decades, exited life’s stage on Dec. 17, 2019, in New York City. “We met in 1979,” his wife Margarita said in an interview this week.  “The 40 years I knew him, it was all Cooperstown.  It was all theater.  That was his life.  That’s what he talked…